Experimental

Plot Outline: Strings is a mythological story about the son of a king, Hal Tara, who sets out on a journey to revenge the death of his father. To his surprise he discovers the truth of his own people – and where he least expects it – he finds true love.

Actually this film is a bit short on plot but is technically stunning, and incorporates a number of unusual sight-gags, such as the portcullis to the walled city rising (not lowering) to keep people in (because everyone is a puppet and the raised portcullis blocks their strings)…Read More »

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The Glass System, made from images shot in New York and Calcutta, looks at life as it is played out in the streets. Every corner turned reveals activities both simple and unfamiliar: a knife sharpener on a bicycle; a tiny tightrope walker; a man selling watches in front of a department store on Fifth Avenue; a hauntingly slow portrait of the darting eyes of schoolgirls on their way home; the uncompleted activities of a young contortionist. The sound in the film (which is from a Bengali primer written by British missionaries) is a meditation on how the English language teaches ideas about culture which are often incongruous. The disjunction between what you hear and what you see evokes reflections about the impact of globalization and the hegemony of Western-style capitalism.Read More »

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Fred Halsted, S&M aficionado and XXX film actor, emerged as a director rivaling Kenneth Anger in the genre of gay art-erotica. L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was his take on the same territory as Anger’s Scorpio Rising. When it opened at the 55th Street Playhouse, doubled billed with his Sex Garage, it was a case of see-it-now, or now you don’t. The police shut it down – not for the notorious fisting vignette that climaxes L.A. Plays Itself (which is cut from the video versions), but for a scene in which a guy gets it on with his motorcycle.Read More »

Poetic, experimental and different, a black and white silent movie with sound where as an obese man carries a slim Asian woman across trash dumps and through dilapidated buildings, off-screen voices deliver a jumble of thoughts and personalities. A blend of identity, spirituality, consumerism and pop culture sounds like crazy talk one minute and sanity the next. The reference of Chernobyl Massacre came repeatedly in the movie. The movie reminds us that it was the then USSR, the country on the lead of Communism i.e. it is not of the people by the people for the people; instead it was a country of social equality; equality, not equity, where the disaster took place !Read More »

The Misfortunes of Luis Buñuel” shows the ravages of time on the rushes of the film “The Golden Age” that Luis Buñuel shot in 1930. By isolating and slowing down the most damaged parts of the rushes of the Spanish master’s film, I managed to create an object with abstract shapes and, insidiously, to give another life to a first-class artistic work.

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A 21-minute journey through space that repeats creation and expansion.

For 21 minutes, it’s a trip movie where you keep warping through a different dimension tunnel and your existence continues to split!Read More »

Perhaps the most important experimental film ever made in Argentina.

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This uneven biographical docudrama of Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) interviews four of the writer’s protégés in an Argentine cafe. Friends and colleagues gather to discuss their memories of the celebrated author and dramatist. The four men are interviewed separately in addition to their group discussions concerning Gombrowicz.. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie GuideRead More »

Cosmotropia de Xam’s extraordinary experimental film Space Necronomicon , which includes some amazing AI generated sequences, and Grant McPhee’s, Lori and the Six Six Sixties, a homage to sixties excess and occult weirdness.Read More »

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Ryuich, the survivor when bombing in Nagasaki has the amazing document of those tragic at the order, it is record of explosion of an atomic bomb on August 9, 1945 11:02. He has made this record at five-year age on the tape recorder of the father. The sound of a bomb injures mentality of the young man, causes him almost physical pain, but gradually he finds in is mute also a consolation. Over time Ryuichi becomes we will gain the idea to recreate this awful sound that his mind and its life threatens.Read More »